228 A TREATISE OF 



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CHAP. LXXXII. 



Of the Orderiaig of Grapes in Efpaliers. 



THERE are feveral forts of grapes 

 that will do very well in efpaliers ; 

 but they muft have a frame lower than 

 v/hat is mentioned for other fruit-trees ; 

 for, the nearer the ground the earlier they 

 will be ripe. 



The pofts of the frame need not be more 

 than two inches fquare, made of oak, about 

 a yard long, with a fharp point driven a 

 foot into the ground, at the diflance of two 

 yards from each other in a flrait line j 

 and then along the tops of thefe pofts, 

 there muft be a little pole or pantile.lath 

 nailed ; another nine inches below, and 

 likewife one about three inches from the 

 ground. 



As thefe efpaliers are very low, they had 

 much better be within a quarter of the 

 kitchen-garden, than upon the boundary. 

 The vines fliould be planted about eight 

 feet afunder, after the ground is prepared 

 as dire6led for thofe againft walls^ and 



where 



